Inclusive Development International has released a new report, “‘I Will Do Anything to Stay Here’: What a Just Energy Transition Means to Communities at Risk from Bauxite Mining in Guinea.”
As the bank tries to streamline overlapping functions, board members sought to assure civil society groups that communities negatively affected by the institution’s projects will have the same level of access to accountability functions.
Advocates are calling for an independent review of the case of alleged sexual abuse of more than 20 students from IFC-funded Bridge International Academies in Kenya.
Standard Chartered is being investigated through the OECD’s formal complaints mechanism for its financing of four coal-fired power plants in the Philippines, which non-profits allege have caused environmental, economic and health-related harms to local communities.
In a session on investigating the impact of alternative energy at the recent Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference in the US, a panel of experts revealed that a combination of direct reporting on affected communities plus deep supply chain research was the best formula for achieving impact.
Smiles and relief are evident as the 17-year land displacement case involving 700 families in Oddar Meanchey province against Thai sugar moghul Mitr Phol Corp Ltd, supplier of Coca Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, and Mars Wrigley, has come to an end with an undisclosed sum being received following the out-of-court settlement in March.
More than seven hundred families who were driven from their land to make way for an industrial sugar plantation in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey Province in 2008 and 2009 have received a payment from the Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation Limited.
An Indonesian community in North Sumatra is calling on Beijing to withdraw financial backing for a China-linked zinc and lead mine in the earthquake-prone region after the project lost its environmental permit.
The Ministry of Environment has revoked the environmental permit for PT Dairi Prima Mineral’s zinc and lead mine in Dairi Regency, North Sumatra. This is a follow-up to the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the residents’ lawsuit. Now, residents are demanding that the mine be permanently closed.
